"Beginning with the 1975-76 television season and continuing for eight years, Shaheen, an American of Arabic descent, documented over 100 different popular entertainment programs, cartoons and major documentaries telecast on network, independent and public channels, totaling nearly 200 episodes, that related to Arabs. He concludes that TV in its various genre perpetrates four basic myths: they are all fabulously rich; they are barbaric and uncultured; they are sex maniacs with a penchant for white slavery; and they revel in acts of terrorism." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 780)